May also be responsible for:
- Providing individual Support Specialist services in the community.
- Participating with the youths Child Family Team meeting.
- Assists in teaching problem-solving skills, coping mechanisms and strategies for their youths symptoms and behavior management.
- Assist parents in identifying, enhancing, and establishing support networks, community awareness, coping strategies, to improve the
youths functioning in their social environments (home, work, school).
- Teach parents skills that help improve the youths self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms.
- Assists parents in identifying, effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors (triggers) that lead to functional impairments in
social environments (home, work, school).
- Help implement the youths Plan of Care on an ongoing basis.
- Participate in collaborative meetings with Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as
needed.
- Communicate parents status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in effectively parenting or ability to
understand/manage youths functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.
- Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, documentation of every contact with parent or other members that provide
significant support to youth.
- Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all no shows, and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate
office staff.
